ABSTRACT
Reports of therapeutic success with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have until very recently been met with much scepticism and pessimism by the West, due in-part to the sheer lack of available credible and rigorous clinical data and at claims that a given TCM can remedy common ailments and be just as efficacious in eliminating life threatening diseases, such as cancer. The tide is now beginning to turn on this negative outlook, aided by the ever-increasing migration of people and along with them knowledge (based upon ancestral cultural influences) from two of the world's fasting growing populations, China and India, to the West [1]. This translation to the West of ancient complementary and alternative medicine formularies and their ever-increasing integrative role in the armoury against cancer means that their presence and place in modern medicine can no longer be overlooked, by regulatory authorities and clinicians alike, as being merely anecdotal.
